Giordano Ansaloni, a Sicilian Dominican missionary, died by torture at Nagasaki, Japan, Nov. 18. 1634. Hearing that in the Japanese islands Christians were persecuted with the utmost barbarity, he went with a Spanish missionary expedition to the Philippine islands, learned the Japanese language in a Chinese and Japanese hospital at Manila, and in 1632 went to Japan, where he spent two years in the disguise of a native priest. He was finally discovered and arrested at Nagasaki, where he was tortured to death. Another priest and 69 converts were put to death at the same time.